Coat hanger adapted to be sewed into the shoulder lining of clothes



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Patented Nov. 19, 1946 INTO THE SHOULDER CLOTHES LINING OF Rudolf Senn, Basle, Switzerland Application October 2, 1945, Serial No. 619,837 In Switzerland November 6, 1944 Claims. 1

The invention relates to a coat-hanger adapted to be `sewed into the shoulder-lining of clothes. According to this invention, the coat-hanger is composed of a strip of elastic, iiexible material, one of its broad sides being taken up by an uninterrupted row of adjoint-pieces, the intervening space being so small that any bending of the strip towards this side is prevented. This strip should preferably consist of rustless spring-metal, for instance, spring-steel or spring-bronze. The adjoint-pieces may be little plates of metal o-r Aartiiicial resin, and similar substances, attached in some way or other to the strip, for instance, by means of rivets.

A coat-hanger as described above may freely be bent towards the broad side lying opposite the adjoint-pieces, whereas it assumes the state of a stiff rod in respect to bendings towards the other side as soon as the adjoint-pieces push against each other and, in this position, it may be used as an ordinary coat-hanger. If this coat-hanger is laid into the shoulder-lining of an article of clothing it is possible, in the case of the last mentioned position, i. e., when the adjoint-pieces are lying downwardly, to hang up this garment on the However, if the coat-hanger is turned about by 180 around its longitudinal axis, whereby the adjoint-pieces are caused to lie upwardly, it is comfortably tted to the garment by correspondingly bending the neck-and shoulder-parts and thus the hanger is not in the way and is not objectionable to the wearer.

According to a further object of the present invention, the strip, together with the adjointpieces, can be brought into a loose stuff-covering, suiciently spacious to allow the strip to be turned from the outside, whereupon this stuff-covering can, as already mentioned be sewed into the shoulder-lining of a garment. It is advisable to, subsequently, attach the suspension-loop to the stuff-covering, and to lead it through one or two slits of the shoulder-lining, whereby the loop is located in the normal position for the suspension of` the garment.

An embodiment of this invention is described below, and supplementary information is given by the enclosed sketch.

Fig. 1 shows a lateral view, and

Fig. 2 a ground-plan of a coat-hanger, according to the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation showing on a smaller scale, how the coat-hanger, in the same position as presented in Fig. 1, is placed into a coat or an overcoat in a manner approximately corresponding to the form, when wearing this garment.

2 Fig. 4 is a front elevation showing the same garment carried by hand.

Fig. 5 is a front elevation showing 'the suspension of the same garment, the coat-hanger having been turned abo-ut by According to Figs. l and 2, the coat-hanger is composed of a strip a of elastic, exible material, for instance, spring-steel, and a number of small plates b lying in succession at a small intervening space, each of which is connected with the strip a, by means of a rivet d. The intervening space between the single small plates b is so small that ,the neighbouring edges of the plates b, when bending the strip in an upward direction, push against each other and thus prevent further bending, whereby the coat-hanger approximately assumes a curved form as shown in Fig'. 5, and acquires the state of a rigid, bent rod, thus assuring its use as a coat-hanger. According to Fig. 5, a strip a, together with the adjoint-pieces 1J, is located in a stul-covering e, this latter being suiciently spacious to allow the strip to be turned about from the outside, around its longitudinal axis. Furthermore, a suspension-loop f is sewed on to the stuff-covering, this loop being led through two slits g in the shoulder-lining of the garment h and, in this manner, the coat-hanger and the garment may be suspended to the loop, for instance, in the position of the peg i, shown in transverse section.

When the garment h is worn, it is possible to turn the strip a, together with the adjoint-pieces b around its longitudinal axis by 180, by means of thumb and forenger, holding the garment on both shoulder-parts, whereby the small plates b lie upwardly, as shown in Fig. 1. As shown in Fig. 3, the garment, in this form, is freely adapted to the shoulderand neck-parts of the person wearing the garment. Furthermore, a free adaptation of the coat-hanger for further use takes place in the same form, for instance, when carrying it by hand, as shown in Fig. 1.

The length of the coat-hanger can be adapted to the shoulder-width of the garment; it is also possible to select a weaker or stronger coat-holder, according to the character of the garment, the latter, for instance, in the case of heavy winterovercoats, whereas, otherwise, a weaker, and particularly supple form is to be recommended. A coat-holder of such nature is adapted to press closely to the neckand shoulder-form of the person wearing it and, therefore, even in the case of light material, the presence of the coat-holder in the shoulder-lining is neither noticeable, nor felt as being inconvenient.

I claim:

1. A coat-hanger adapted to be sewed into the shoulder-lining of a garment, composed of an elastic, leXible strip, a broad side of this strip being taken up by an uninterrupted row of adjoint-pieces, their intervening space being so small that they limit a bending of the' strip towards this side.

2. A coat-hanger adapted to be seWed into the shoulder-lining of a garment, composed of an elastic, iiexible strip of rustless. spring-metal, a

broad side of this strip being takeni up by an uninterrupted row of adjoint-pieces, their intervening space being so small that they limit a bending of the strip towards this side.

3. A coat-hanger adapted to be sewed into the shoulder-lining of a garment, composed ofY an elastic, exible strip, a broad side of this strip being taken up by an uninterrupted row of adjointpieces, such adjoint-pieces being composed of small plates attachedv tothe strip, the intervening space between these pieces being so small that they limit a bending of the strip towards this side.

4. A coat-hanger adapted to be sewed into the shoulder-lining of a garment, composed of an elastic, flexible strip, a broad side of this strip being taken up by an uninterrupted row of adjoint-pieces, their intervening space being so small that they limit a bending of the strip to- Wards this side, a stui-covering loosely Wrapping up the strip and the adjointepieces', this stuifcovering being sufciently spacious to allow the strip contained therein to be turned about from the outside.

5. A coat-hanger adapted to be sewed into the shoulder-lining` of a garment, composed of an elastic, flexible strip, a broad side of the strip being taken up by an uninterrupted row of adjoint-pieces, their intervening space being so small that theylimit a bending of the strip towards-this side, a stuffcovering loosely Wrapping up the strip and the adjoint-pieces, this stuffcovering being suficiently spacious to allow the strip contained therein to be turned about from the outside, anda suspension-loop` adapted to be drawn through slits of the shoulderlining andv attached tothe middle part of the stuff -covering.

RUDOLF SENN. 

